Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get…

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

— Will Rogers

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

— Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

— Lori Lightfoot

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave…

— Morton Irving Seiden

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

— Elia Suleiman

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

— Paul Park

The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them…

— Crispin Blunt

I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Interacting with a corrupt government judge is futile.”

— Steven Magee

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

— Oscar Wilde

If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else…

— Bryan Fogel

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow…

— Common

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the…

— Sandra Bernhard